Summary – “The Box”‚ by Marc Levinson. Princeton 2006 Marc Levinson brings together in his book “The Box”‚ How The Shipping Container Made The World Smaller And the World Economy Bigger‚ a history in unitised freight handling in its birthplace‚ and shares with us an education in obsession‚ innovation‚ and invention. He describes through his main character‚ Malcom McLean‚ how to do business by integrating shipper‚ transporter‚ and customer in controlled logistics/ in a smooth supply chain. Further
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provided by the Faculty DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO This examination paper consists of 3 printed pages © Hak Cipta Universiti Teknologi MARA CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL 2 BM/APR 2010/TPT250 QUESTION 1 Discuss how containerisation concept has helped in the handling and distribution of goods. (25 marks) QUESTION 2 Identify the roles of transport in the development of civilization. (25 marks) QUESTION 3 Terminals may be points of interchange within the same modal system
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export goods. Most of these trade deals have been possible due to the increase and development in technology and the demand and ease of supplying other countries with goods they need or want to exploit‚ due to new methods of shipping such as containerisation (placing any object(s) in a big container as opposed to using different sized containers that made transportation difficult). All these methods and new inventions have been encouraged and used by many countries on a global scale‚ impacting their
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MAR004-3 Global Marketing Assignment 2: Individual Written Report Developing a Global Marketing Plan for UNIQLO Introduction For Part I‚ Group Presentation‚ you have undertaken a Market Audit and Competitive Market Analysis for UNIQLO. In Part II you will prepare the Marketing Plan‚ i.e.‚ the ‘action plan’. In Part I you have: a) chosen a market (country) from one of the two regions (the European Union or South America)‚ and b) undertaken a market audit and competitive analysis for
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Main reasons that have caused globalisation 1. Improved transport‚ making global travel easier. For example‚ there has been a rapid growth in air-travel‚ enabling greater movement of people and goods across the globe. 2. Containerisation. From 1970‚ there was a rapid adoption of the steel transport container. This reduced the costs of inter-modal transport making trade cheaper and more efficient. 3. Improved technology which makes it easier to communicate and share information around the world.
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gather information on new products and places. Hence‚ it is a significant driving force of globalization. Secondly‚ improvements in transportation have shrunk the world considerably in terms of time taken to travel from on place to another. Containerisation has reduced the time and money taken to move goods over long distances. It has greatly simplified the transferring of goods from one mode of transportation to another as containers can be easily transferred from ships to trucks. In a globalizing
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Indonesia is the largest economy of the South East Asian region. Previously considered a developing economy‚ Indonesia is now categorised an emerging economy due to its strong growth performance‚ prospects and shift from an agricultural based economy to a newly industrialised one. Despite it’s increasing economic growth rate of 6.2% in 2012‚ Indonesia still suffers from a relatively low level of economic development‚ as indicated by the HDI of 0.629 which is below 120 other economies. Mostly‚ this
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the world. • Commercial jet aircraft‚ large ocean-going vessels and containerization (used in 20th Century) greatly increased movement of goods and people. • Containerisation is a system of cargo transport in which standard-sized containers can be loaded on container ships‚ rail cars and trucks. • Containerisation reduced time and cost of moving goods over long distance. • In world‚ there is increase mobility of goods and people. • Countries build efficient and integrated
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International Trade-development Project COMPETENCIES & LEARNING OUTCOMES. |NO |ELEMENT |PERFORMANCE CRITERIA | |1 |Investigate the choice of a viable|1.1 A range of ‘exportable’ tangible products is identified and evaluated. | | |export product. |
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References: Broeze‚ F. (2002). The globalisation of the oceans: Containerisation from the 1950s to the present. St. Brookfield‚ H.C. (1984). Boxes‚ ports‚ and places without ports. In Doyle‚ B.S. & Hilling‚ D. Brown‚ R.D. (1978). The port of London. Lavenham‚ UK: Lavenham Press. Cudahy‚ B.J. (2006a). Box boats: How container
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